История острова Пасхи

История Острова Пасхи

Isle

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, it is located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at present Chilean territory. The island resembles a triangle, in every corner there is a volcano, dense vegetation covered the whole island, there was also a huge tropical forest.

This distant island, ten thousand BC, was inhabited by the ancient civilization of Rapanui

Activities

Due to the fact that the island was so far away, the Rapanui were isolated from the outside world. This is a feature of these people. Moreover, this civilization was very developed. People built huge stone statues from volcanic rocks. They were created in about three hundred years. The guns were found near these structures, with the help of which these idols were created, which, as it turned out, they were worshiped.

Writing

In addition to the statues, Easter Island is also known for the fact that they created their writing, there were only three types and for a long time no one could solve it these days. On special wooden tablets they were written in hieroglyphs. Some notes have survived to this day - these are twenty tablets and eleven texts, some of which are repeated.

Writing

the ancient inhabitants made planks of dark shiny wood of topomipo, after which they cut out images of lizards, toads, turtles, stars, spirals ... you can even recognize a person with wings. Stiven Fisher is the first to solve hieroglyphs. It turned out that most of the records talk about the creation of everything.

Population

There are speculations that several centuries ago

the island was inhabited by ten to fifteen thousand people. Due to the constant wars among themselves, the flourishing cannibalism, as well as the ecological disaster that befell the island, even before the arrival of the first Europeans, the population dropped to three thousand.

Population

After Easter Island was discovered, part of the locals fell into slavery and was taken to Peru, part died due to new diseases and epidemics. When in the year eighty-eighty-eighty-eight the territory fell under the rule of Chile, it turned out that Easter Island was inhabited by only one hundred and seventy-eight inhabitants. According to the latest census, by the year two thousand and twelve the number of inhabitants of the island had increased, and at that time the island was inhabited by almost six thousand inhabitants.